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elements and mandible (BP3757). No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

At an unknown date, possibly 

between the 1960s and 2009, human 

remains representing, at minimum, 

three individuals were removed from an 

unknown location, likely within the 

vicinity of Clinton, IA, by a private 

collector. Upon the private collectors 

passing his family transferred the 

human remains to the OSA in March of 

2023. One juvenile individual aged birth 

to two years and two adult males are 

represented (BP3770). The 16 associated 

funerary objects include one black chert 

early-stage biface, one white chert point 

base, and 14 shell fragments. 

At an unknown date human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from an 

unknown location, likely in the vicinity 

of Clinton, IA, by a private collector. 

Upon his passing his family transferred 

the human remains to the OSA in March 

of 2023. The human remains include on 

left tibia midsection from an adult 

individual (BP3772). The human 

remains represent one adult individual. 

No associated funerary objects are 

present. 

Aboriginal Land 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice were 

removed from known geographic 

locations. These locations are the 

aboriginal lands of one or more Indian 

Tribes. The following information was 

used to identify the aboriginal land: a 

final judgment of the Indian Claims 

Commission or the United States Court 

of Claims, treaties, oral history, and 

consultation with 26 signatory Tribes to 

the Process for Reburial of Culturally 

Unidentifiable Native American Human 

Remains and Associated Funerary 

Objects originating from Iowa. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes, the OSA–BP has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 55 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 53 objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony. 

• No relationship of shared group 

identity can be reasonably traced 

between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects and any 

Indian Tribe. 

• The human remains and associated 

funerary objects described in this notice 

were removed from the aboriginal land 

of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of 

the Cheyenne River Reservation, South 

Dakota; Citizen Potawatomi Nation, 

Oklahoma; Flandreau Santee Sioux 

Tribe of South Dakota; Ho-Chunk 

Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of 

Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Lower Sioux Indian 

Community in the State of Minnesota; 

Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Omaha Tribe 

of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of 

Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of 

Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of 

Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of 

Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; 

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Sac & 

Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and 

Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; 

Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in 

Iowa; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; 

Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake 

Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; 

Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota;, The 

Osage Nation; Three Affiliated Tribes of 

the Fort Berthold Reservation, North 

Dakota; Upper Sioux Community, 

Minnesota; Winnebago Tribe of 

Nebraska; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe 

of South Dakota. 

Requests for Disposition 

Written requests for disposition of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization, or who 

shows that the requestor is an aboriginal 

land Indian Tribe. 

Disposition of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after January 18, 2024. If competing 

requests for disposition are received, the 

OSA–BP must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

disposition. Requests for joint 

disposition of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The OSA–BP is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9 and 10.11. 

Dated: December 8, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27791 Filed 12–18–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037092; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

American Museum of Natural History, 

New York, NY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

American Museum of Natural History 

(AMNH) has completed an inventory of 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects and has determined that there is 

a cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Snohomish County, 

WA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

January 18, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Nell Murphy, American 

Museum of Natural History, 200 Central 

Park West, New York, NY 10024, 

telephone (212) 769–5837, email 

nmurphy@amnh.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the AMNH. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the AMNH. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 16 individuals were removed 

from Snohomish County, WA. In 1899, 

former AMNH Curator of North 

American Archaeology, Harlan Smith, 

excavated the individuals and 15 

associated funerary objects from eight 

shell heaps found along the 


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Stillaguamish River in the vicinity of 

Stanwood, WA. The material was 

collected as part of the Jesup Expedition 

and subsequently accessioned at the 

AMNH. Biological and archeological 

evidence suggests that the individuals 

excavated by Smith lived sometime 

during the Prehistoric Period. The 15 

associated funerary objects are four 

shells, including a mussel shell; one 

stone; two grit stones; one stone pestle; 

two antler wedges; one piece of antler; 

one bone implement; one bone harpoon 

barb; one animal tooth; and one animal 

upper jaw fragment. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological 

information, archeological information, 

biological information, geographical 

information, historical information, 

linguistics, oral tradition, and expert 

opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the AMNH has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 16 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 15 objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Stillaguamish Tribe 

of Indians of Washington; Swinomish 

Indian Tribal Community; Tulalip 

Tribes of Washington; and the Upper 

Skagit Indian Tribe. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after January 18, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the AMNH must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The AMNH is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, § 10.10, and 

§ 10.14. 

Dated: December 8, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27798 Filed 12–18–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037100; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: New 

York University, College of Dentistry, 

New York, NY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the New 

York University, College of Dentistry 

(NYU College of Dentistry) has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and has determined that there 

is no cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and any Indian Tribe. 

The human remains were removed from 

Queens, Dutchess, and Bronx Counties, 

NY. 

DATES: Disposition of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after January 18, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Joshua H. Johnson, NYU 

College of Dentistry, 345 East 24th 

Street, New York, NY 10010, telephone 

(646) 341–1016, email jj65@nyu.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of NYU College of 

Dentistry. The National Park Service is 

not responsible for the determinations 

in this notice. Additional information 

on the determinations in this notice, 

including the results of consultation, 

can be found in the inventory or related 

records held by NYU College of 

Dentistry. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Rockaway in Queens County, NY. 

The human remains of one individual 

were excavated at an unknown date by 

an unknown individual. The human 

remains have a label adhered to them 

that contains the number ‘‘999.’’ J. 

Carton Brevoost donated the human 

remains to the Museum of American 

Indian, and they were catalogued into 

the Department of Physical 

Anthropology at the Museum of 

American Indian in 1921. In 1956, the 

human remains were transferred to NYU 

College of Dentistry. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Burr Reynolds Farm in Poughquag, 

Long Island, Dutchess County, NY. The 

human remains of one individual were 

excavated at an unknown date by an 

unknown individual. No donor is listed. 

The human remains are not catalogued 

in the ledger of the Department of 

Physical Anthropology at the Museum 

of the American Indian, but a label with 

the object identifies the locality and 

states that the human remains were 

donated in the winter of 1940–1941. In 

1956, the human remains were 

transferred to the NYU College of 

Dentistry. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Weir Creek Mound, Throgg’s Neck, 

Bronx County, NY. The human remains 

were excavated at an unknown date by 

an unknown individual. E.O. Sugden 

donated the human remains to the 

Museum of American Indian, and they 

were catalogued into the Department of 

Physical Anthropology at the Museum 

of American Indian in 1920. 

Aboriginal Land 

The human remains in this notice 

were removed from known geographic 

locations. These locations are the 


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